The five accused in the multi-crore financial irregularities case at state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, including the former principal of the institute Sandip Ghosh, on Tuesday, sought exemption from the case.
West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors, an umbrella association of senior doctors in the state, is planning a 10-day protest from Tuesday to condemn the “default bail” granted last week by a special court in Kolkata to the two accused in the RG Kar rape and murder case.
The CPM-led Left Front and the Congress today staged protests at various points in the city, alleging that the CBI has failed to deliver justice in the case.
I know Sandip Ghosh because he and I, both are orthopaedic surgeons. I am also the chief minister’s family physician for a prolonged period of more than four decades, claimed Dr Shyama Prasad Das.
Sources said the most crucial clause of the concerned entity having requisite expertise and experience in implementing similar technical projects was overlooked in this case.
On a day of the arrest of Prof Sandip Ghosh, the R G Kar Medical College former principal, by CBI on corruption charges, the Burdwan Medical College principal ordered a probe against Ghosh's loyalist PGT Avik De and also barred entry of De and his two aides.
Sources said the three persons arrested by the CBI are Afsar Ali, Suman Hazra, and Biplab Sinha.
Ghosh was arrested on the 16th day of his daily interrogation by the central agency, which took over the probe from the Kolkata Police following the direction of the Calcutta High Court on August 14.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday suspended the membership of Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College in West Bengal’s Kolkatta, in the wake of of rape-murder of a woman postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor.
More trouble seems to be brewing for the former and controversial Principal of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is also entering the scene by filing an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) regarding financial irregularities there during his tenure.
